Bacopa monniera prevents from aluminium neurotoxicity in the cerebral cortex of rat brain

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-62

  Jyoti, Amar ^a   Sethi, Pallavi ^a   Sharma, Deepak ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

4 Hydroxynonenol (4HNE); Bacopa extract; Glutathione peroxidase (GPx); Lipofuscin; Reduced Glutathione (GSH); Superoxide dismutase (SOD); Thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS)

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; BACOPA MONNIERI EXTRACT; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; SELEGILINE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ALUMINUM OVERLOAD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACOPA MONNIERI; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN DEFECT; RAT;

ALDEHYDES; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BACOPA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHLORIDES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; INDIA; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MEDICINE, AYURVEDIC; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SELEGILINE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

BACOPA; BACOPA MONNIERI; RATTUS;

EID: 33947595778     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2006.10.037     Document Type: Article

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